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Anthropic's co-founders Dario Amodei and Jack Clark will meet with Trump administration officials and congressional Republicans next week, a source familiar tells Axios.
Why it matters: The March 15 deadline for commenting on the White House's Artificial Intelligence Action Plan is coming up, and leading AI companies are making their pleas for how this administration should approach the technology.
Driving the news: Amodei and Clark are set to meet with various committees, including the House China Select Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee.
They want to emphasize what they see as a need to strengthen high tech export controls and to take a strong stance against China for national security and tech development.
The big picture: AI companies have a chance to shape Trump administration policy as the U.S. government's stance on AI development changes rapidly.
In Anthropic's filing to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the company writes that they expect "powerful AI systems" with capabilities that match or exceed human intelligence by 2026 or 2027.
National security testing, export controls, lab security, energy infrastructure, government AI adoption and proper economic data collection about AI's impact are six key areas to focus on, the company argues in its filing.
